Vermilion

Bring it down

Like fire on my tongue

In places deeper

Oblivion

Vermilion

In velvet flames

Dancing darkness

Invading veins

Colors running red

Threads across and down

Sprinkling crumbs of bread

Words like clues for ears

Lips left different shades

Blue from barely breathing

Caught up in the sound

Taking a tidal beating

Let the ocean in these lungs

Leave only one option

To find my own way

Back into your eyes

Hungry for your touch

And you've no idea

How I long to free this lust

Barely contained

Within these vibrant hues

Talk of me and you

Is a fire ever burning

A spirit now indwelt

Ephemeral

An aching luminescence

Begging to be witnessed

Tell me your salvation

Sell me your rendition

Whispered down below

In quiet moments in between

And vows indelible

Meet me in this

Strawberry sunrise

Counting down to

Sunsets of scarlet

Bring me this abyss

A horizon unreachable

But that I can always kiss

Ambitious

The indefinite remains

Lingering syllables

Of songs left sadly unwrit'

And fires left unlit

Now ignite this

Quenched against my touch

In velvet flames

Colors running red

Vermilion

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